skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It didn't have 20k players, but beyond a certain point "scale" doesn't change much (most of the kinds of phenomena referred to in EVE occurred in Cluster II -- I know of no cases of real world crimes being perpetrated for in-game advantage though).

Who said anything about email? This was play by mail. Each turn comprised getting a combination state-of-your-holdings/order-form on computer fanfold, filling in and tearing off the order section, and sending it back. Some aspects needed to be handle out-of-band (e.g. if you designed new warships I believe they were verified legal manually -- one of my friends was given free play in exchange for verifying ship designs -- and then entered into the system).
Angry Birds Star Wars coming November 8
Judge: Corporate takeover of employee LinkedIn account is OK
Well, yes. When your enemies are working on something, you want to see if their stuff is good. If it's good, then you use it yourself. This isn't "stealing" as much as it's "I really don't want the other guy to have a strategic advantage." If it doesn't work (apparently, this idea didn't), then you drop it.
Exactly. Depending on volatility you could get a positive return investing a set amount in a stock regularly, even if the stock started and finished at the exact same price.

In addition some stocks pay dividends; reinvesting these can also improve rate of return beyond what would be expected from just looking at the stock price.
There's a quaint little gem of a coffee spot in Manhattan (located in Gramercy area) called Irving Place. It's on 71 Irving Place. It's got a great ambience.
20 years ago I remember everyone saying fusion was 40-50 years out and always had been. Honestly, I think the estimates where fairly reasonable when you consider the 30+ year gap between Jet which was designed in 1972 and came online in 1983 and ITER which is still being built. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus

PS: I have heard that the real issue was scaling up Jet was assumed to be work but doing so was to far from commercially viable to be useful.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist and this is slightly off topic, but please bear with me. I'm just thinking out loud here.

One of the main counter points to 9/11 government conspiracy, is that a operation of that scale just couldn't be keept a secret, since to many people would be involved (and the government is all together useless). Yet here we are with a freaking flying saucer that the government did make, and apparently keept secret for over 50 years! I don't know how many people ware involved, but I'd imagine that a lot. So ... I guess they can keep big secrets?
But if you view the payoff as not certain, $100 now is worth a lot more than $150 in a month - because you are here now with $100. The $150 is worth its normal discount rate multiplied by the strength of the probability that you will be here in a month with $150. The discount rate here is entirely due differences in risk of nonpayment - which are marginal when comparing 60 months to 61 months, but massive when comparing now to an hour from now.

According to criteria that would label hyperbolic discounting irrational or illogical, debt collectors are equally confused for not accepting the promise of a $100,000 payoff 50 years from now rather than a settling of the debt today.
No, I have a very mundane, standard definition of progress. One of the many negative effects of our society's pathological individualism is this idea that copying an idea is intrinsically immoral. In fact, copying is necessary to innovation and innovation is pointless without more copying.

Ever notice that basically all cars have 90% identical feature sets while only a small handful of special features differentiate any particular model from the rest of the market? How did that situation come about? Did God come down from heaven in 1970 with some stone tablets describing an AMC Pacer and declare "Here is the basic idea of the automobile. Now go forth and add superficial features to this design"?

Of course not. What happened was that manufacturers competed for many decades, incrementally adding new features. And when one manufacturer found a feature that succeeded in the market, other manufacturers copied it.

This is how technology advances: by building on past success.
You're confusing criminal and civil cases. People are given public defenders when they're part of criminal case, but not when they're part of a civil suit. All of this protection is so people are not railroaded by the government in court. People can be railroaded by other people/corporations and the government doesn't really care (for the most part).

As to your broader point, then the parties in the follow-up cases can argue that it doesn't make any sense since Samsung screwed themselves. It would then be up to a judge look at the established case law and say, "No this is incorrect." It would then be up to an appeals panel to decide which is the correct interpretation. These things takes years and even decades to work their way through the system.
What about the combined fusion/fission options? I mean that's what the h-bomb and the sun do right?
It seems like no one had compiled a list of all names mentioned in the talk, so I just compiled a list. I hope this be easier for younger generation to know who are those people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gardner_Pfann

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bethe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Wade_Bode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Pierce

http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?clogston...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Houser_Brattain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tukey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?chynowet...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Johnson

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=ken...

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16955

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%27ain%27t_What_You_Do_%28It%2...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issac_Newton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Alexander_Schelkunoff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/590_Madison_Avenue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_M._Oliver

http://www.fraserresearch.org/FRbio_trustees.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Gilbert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Munro_Ross
I appreciate the insights. I'm hardly immune to the alleged charms of EVE (I'm an old school tabletop/board wargamer and game designer), I just think the price (in terms of poor gameplay) outweighs those charms.
Show HN: Husky Chat, a Chrome extension that overlays a chatroom on any website
Your example is fitting as Dell was selling (and I wouldn't be surprised if still is) Dell-branded networking gear designed and made by Chinese ODM which contained pretty obvious and well-known backdoor and it does not seem to matter much.
I'll give this a shot.

The code I would write would take longer the more friends you have. Basically, it would grow linearly with the size of all the sets and the number of intersections found. Something like O(n * M) in the worst case. But I don't get why later you say that n is the size of the smallest set.

So I don't see how you can beat that. I guess you could sort the lists, but that take O(n log n) over M lists, and then lookups would take O(log n).

To me it will be fastest when the algorithm terminates the quickest - the smallest set contains nothing, the 2nd smallest set contains no intersecting keys, anything like that and will be the longest in the worst case (each set is a proper subset of the next) and progressively worse as the subsequent sets get larger.

As for that algorithm running in O(N * M), I am not sure I understood that at first, but I think I do now. If you hold all other set sizes constant, and can only vary the input of the smallest array or the number of sets and you will notice the running time follow O(N * M), but if you increase the size of the largest set by k, then the algorithm will take k times as long to run (in the worst case), but if the running time function f(N,M) belongs to O(N * M) then k * f(N,M) belongs to O(N * M) as well, so the O notation still represents the running time complexity even if you increase the size of the largest set.

So the running time will still increase with the largest set, but the O-notation of the algorithm will still belong to the same representation.
Hi guys!

We made this Chrome extension (w/ Node.js + MongoDB in the back) that overlays a chatroom on top of websites - the idea is, if you want to discuss a certain article / website with other people, all you have to do is install the extension and open it on the given page, to talk to other users.

Say that you are on HN, we give you the ability to chat with whoever else is there reading the same article!

We also have a "Lobby" feature, so you can talk to everyone else on at the same time (that might not be on the same site you're on)

We think this could be a good tool for say - students who want to discuss homework assignments, shoppers who want to make a last minute purchasing decision, or sports fans who want to vent with one another. It's a good way to connect passionate people of the same community!

Still super early - would love get your thoughts on it! Features you wanna see, etc.

Try it out! We will be waiting on the HN homepage!
Matt is a great guy working alongside my startup in the ignite100 loft in Newcastle.

His startup http://inquire.ly/ is in beta and is free at the minute for all tiers, you should certainly check it out if you use forms on your website.
I manage a lot of complex data where many things could result an undesired state. Traffic lights don't always illustrate these conditions well enough, or let you diagnose the problem quickly.

Take the somewhat simple example of rebuilding a drive array.

All drives = green;

Within RAID tolerance = yellow

Degraded = red

What about the status of the hotspare? Is yellow rebuilding? What if there's no more hot spares, but you're within RAID tolerance?

I'm not knocking traffic lights (sometimes they're good), but it's worth spending time trying to figure out your data displays to give you the whole picture. It takes a while, but makes monitoring so much easier.
It's a large campus auditorium.

As far as I recall from prior years it was all first-come, first-served seating, though people closely involved with the presentations tend be clustered near the front, because they need stage access and arrive early.

(Maybe there was a row held for speakers, but if so it was pretty subtle. The event is not about any sort of VIP/velvet-rope tiering, and any investors-not-speaking in attendance might prefer to work the room in back rather than cluster in a reserved holding pen at front...)
just 3 spontaneous impressions:

1- The site (front page) is not bad. Anyway it addresses the one big problem of buying and selling the desired jobs.
2- The name and position of "Watercooler" is interesting and invokes curiosity about the site.
3- The presence of Linked-in as a login option is bad, because the Linked-in is bad. I've deleted my Li account after a crazy frustration upon their wanting me to become a paid member just for me to send a message to a member! No need to link to a doomed site such as that.

That's all.
Alain de Botton: The Glass of Life is Half Empty
There is a much more comprehensive article about Facebooks release engineering at Ars Technica [0].

[0] http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/exclusive-a-behind-t...
The whole "Apple's skeuomorphism is bad" meme was blown out of proportion. Hundreds of millions of people use bloody DVD/Video/Music player UIs that resemble in tiny detail AND behavior an actual dvd/cd player for no good reason, and then complain about the "leather stitching" on iCal, which is a purely _cosmetic_ addition.

The BAD kind of skeuomorphism is mimicking real life object behavior, when a different approach is both possible and more easy to use in software. That is, UIs like this:

http://codecpack.co/images/BlazeDVD.jpg

It has nothing to do about having faux-leather on your background.

Page flipping, which Apple uses in iBooks, is such an example of bad sceuomorphism.

But most other Apple's sceuomorphism criticism is about irrelevant fad designer preferences for clear-cut modernist LOOKS (e.g Metro style, flat etc). Those things are fads, and come and go. The same guys were all over "lickable interfaces, drop shadows, embossed elements, etc" a few years back. Actually, circa 2005-7, it was a whole movement of developers using such visual sceuomorphic and ornamental details, named the "Delicious Generation".

To see that the LOOK part of design (and not behavior, e.g look&feel) is all about fads, consider the case of Jonathan Ives again. The same "minimal, aluminum+glass" guy, was the one who designed the flower-power iMac back in the day:

http://www.giantmike.com/articles/picts/flowerpower.jpg ).
1+(2-1)/2
1+(1)/2
1.5

It only equals 1 if you are using ints ;) I do that more often than I care to admit, I blame programming.
What was wrong with the original title? CA means Canada, and California doesn't have a sovereign government, merely a jumped up devolved assembly.
SpaceX update: The engine did not explode
If only that setting was enabled by default, so that Jane would be protected from having her privacy abused so that a company can make a nickel.

Ha ha! I know, crazy talk.
A reading achievement would be to read his blog and understand the magnitude of what he has done.
The Pinterest Layout Will Not Save You
They didn't want search traffic until the content and structure start to stabilize? Google, et al. will crawl for years after a URL 404s so it might make sense to hold off until the first round of stabilization
I don't know if this is how this particular mission worked, but when I worked at NASA, there were multiple control rooms, even spanning multiple space centers. It's entirely possible whoever was monitoring this was not where you were looking.
I guess my issue is specifically with 'break things' as it overgeneralises the idea of experimentation (which is something I do agree with). The impression that 'move fast, break things' leaves me with is that it's ok to break anything and that it's also (implicitly) not a big deal if they stay broken or somehow hurt a user (e.g by exposing, even temporarily, what was once private).

Even though it's a wonderfully pithy 4 words, people can interpret them in many different ways, most of which I'd argue are not good for the end-user.

"... you are already writing software which you implicitly acknowledge can go wrong. Software has bugs!"

Agreed, but shouldn't the intent be to create things in a way that tries to reduce the likelihood of damage while still allowing plenty of room for experimentation? i.e take some care that what you're about to do/push isn't going to do harm? If I follow the 'break things' mantra, I don't need to care. That's what bothers me. It's so easy to hide behind when something goes wrong.
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Sadly yeah. Somebody changed it a few days ago; it was like that for a long while previously though.
When done well, a skeuomorph helps a user to feel comfortable with an interface. Slight textures in digital interfaces help them to feel tactile. Good skeuomorphs take cues from an analog world to help a user navigate a digital one. when done poorly, the skeuomorph forces the user to deal with an interface in an outdated way by blatantly ignoring the fact that the interaction is being done on a platform that is capable of handling new and improved interactions.

This "page turn" skeuomorph really bothers me. If there is to be any animation at all, it should be to cover up load time, and the user should not have to click and drag with an extremely RSI-incuding stroke to get the page to turn. It feels like the page weighs 50 pounds. Digital interfaces are not material. They are supposed to be frictionless. They are supposed to take the work out of interaction.

I want to click on the right side of the page and have the animation quickly play so that I can get to my content. Focusing on the entire page flip takes me right out of the content.

I know that a book in real life takes some effort to hold, and some effort to flip a page, but designers should really reconsider designs that "look pretty" but keep that same effort around when they translate a book into a digital format.

I cringed when I first saw this kind of behavior in Flash. One or two people figured out how to program a page turner, released a tutorial and everyone was off to the races to create their own. Excellent programming exercise - extremely bothersome UX. Now we can see the entire thing play out again, in high def CSS!
This was basically equivalent to a hard disk failing inside a RAID array. Though I think hard disk failures are more common than engine failures.
This is a pretty long-winded way of accusing people who don't like TypeScript of being big meanies. How about addressing the actual arguments and building a logical case for your position? Or is that not cool any more?

I actually like what I've seen of TypeScript so far, but a lot of the blog posts, both pro and con, seem like more fecal matter clogging up the intertubes.
You can take lots of courses from top universities online for free. That won't give you the piece of paper, you'd get when you paid for them, but all the knowledge is still there.
True. But note that the matrix isn't a binary "good/bad". If you know the concepts that underly dynamic programming and can look it up when needed, great. If you have used it before and can bang out an implementation without looking it up, well, that's even better.
That's what business cards are for.
In a time before the Internet, and around the cold war. Both very important factors with cascading effects and repercussions.
AudioGL reaches beta
How Reliable will the Falcon 9 be?
there are few more levels of knowledge and experience to achieve in order to improve overall quality of your work and that's the point of this article,

you can ALWAYS achieve your target in a better way
I'm really not feeling this design. It's not bad, by any means, but it seems a little too flashy for what's supposed to be a knowledge base.
It should come out the same week as the anti-baldness pill...
Moderators, could you please edit the title to reflect what the article is actually about? The original title is extremely misleading, to put it mildly.
I feel like this is a poorly written article. It doesn't present any sort of position, and the initial anecdote about the customer service issues and the author's indecision regarding support for Paypal have nothing to do with the subsequent issue, which (as has been stated) was simply a matter of not understanding Paypal's terms of service in the first place.

I guess I'm not sure what the point is. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with Paypal's poor customer service, nor does it seem to condemn Paypal's policy of not allowing trusts. It just seems to be another "me-too" article about no longer supporting Paypal as a method of payment, and it wasn't even a conscious choice by the business to discontinue that support.
This would be a good time for the HN editors to change the story to link directly to the webplatform.org site.
If you crave learning new words as much as I do, you'll love this as well
"It would be straightforward to build a saucer or some other shape to get to the edge of space and then use conventional rockets to get to orbital speed. But research like that isn't funded for the same reason that green energy is barely funded - it's not sexy."

The link wasn't to a 'green' energy site, 'over unity' is a perpetual motion machine web site. I believe simple ways to get into orbit are not funded for the same reason that perpetual motion machines aren't funded, because if they actually work there is a simple path to riches with zero dollars, thus there is no need for funding of working concepts.

The same is true for 'straightforward to the edge of space'. If you can combine free energy with easy access to high altitude you can put a cell phone repeater at 100,000' and sell phones with solid coverage in an 36 mile diameter circle for tons of money. Just putting a passive antenna up there that you could bounce UHF digital TV signals off of would get you tons of cash to fund even more 'unsexy' projects!
Aren't these the Minno guys from Randall Stross's book? Didn't know they had pivoted.
They're not saying, "commercial jet engines are more reliable; therefore we should use them". The issue is that the Merlin 1C engine simply hasn't had enough flights to build up its denominator.

It doesn't make sense to normalize for thrust here. This is just failure rate. There's nothing wrong with having a comparatively high failure rate when the sample size is several orders of magnitude smaller: the statistical significance is just weaker; we acknowledge that and move on.
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> the Falcon 9's 1st stage engines are arranged in a 3x3 grid which seems to result in some unfavorable aerodynamic forces on the engines on the corners.

Why are the engines arranged in a 3x3 grid instead of something symmetrical like a circle?
What should be added to this is the ability to tell Mongo to return an error if your query requires a table scan. That one configuration item can be the difference between a request returning an error and a whole site going down for an extended period.
Some good points, but also some circular arguments. Is MySpace's content primarily visual? No. It seems, rather, that Myspace is retooling itself to appeal to viewers who do want to communicate visually. And a lot of younger people do, as can be seen from the popularity of 4chan and its derivatives. Myspace is also pitching itself as a destination for music artist promotion and music sharing, and visuals are important to that.
It's probably against HN etiquette to say things like this, but I really love this post.
Thanks. I considered that, so, I tried to remove the paper clip. I couldn't. lol
Cubes 0.10 released - Lightweight Python OLAP Framework and Server
I view my contact list as more of a list of bookmarks rather than a list of entries in hosts. The main difference is that domain names are still uniquely identifying, whereas a name (e.g. first middle last) is not.
The camera resolution is fixed by the hardware. I think they'd have to wait until a better Kinect is built.

That said, you COULD go the way of several hacks I've seen - marry a high resolution external camera to the Kinect rig, do the correspondence, and use the external camera as your face recognition input.
"Clean"?

Less dirty than fission, absolutely. Enough less dirty to make it manageable in a way that fission doesn't seem to be, more than likely. But not clean.

Any material in and around the reactor becomes nuclear waste in the same manner as it does for fission: by getting blasted with high-energy particles until it becomes radioactive. And while there wouldn't be any spent fuel rods to deal with, one of the products of hydrogen fusion, tritium, is also a source of concern.
I like the last point..
Flight rewards tracker MileWise cuts a deal with Google-ITA
John von Neumann:

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

> That about sums it up. Also, its clear you haven't read the source material you reference (ie, the source not the summary).

You'd be surprised about what people know. And what goes on behind closed doors.

Not sure where you get your expertise from...

I hope its not just playing video games/.